{"id":5039,"date":"2011-02-16T17:39:38","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5039"},"modified":"2011-02-16T17:39:38","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T17:39:38","slug":"womens-insurance-set-to-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5039","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s Insurance Set To Rocket?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/uk.autoblog.com\/2011\/02\/15\/women-s-insurance-premiums-set-to-rocket\/\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">this story in Autoblog<\/a>. There is a discrimination hearing next month at the European Court of Justice.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">The final decision is expected on 1 March, and could see the gap closed between the prices male and female drivers pay for their insurance. The 17-22 age bracket is set to suffer the most, with prices for female drivers currently over \u00a31,000 less than their male equivalents. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what happens. Personally, I find any form of discrimination abhorrent &#8211; <em>positive <\/em>discrimination especially so. I had a skinful of it when I was in the rat race.<\/p>\n<p>Also interesting is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">Spokesman for the AA, Ian Crowder, said that the traditional difference between the two genders was based on statistical evidence. <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;It is not that women have fewer accidents, it is that men are more likely to take risks and have a catastrophic crash,&#8221; he said. &#8220;The typical one is where a young man is showing off to his mates or his girlfriend.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\">He said The AA has already had two claims from male teenagers in excess of \u00a35m this year for crashes where serious injury or fatalities involved. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Talk about conflicting information. This is the first time I&#8217;ve heard this used as a reason why male drivers&#8217; insurance is high, and also the first time I&#8217;ve seen anyone officially admit women <em>don&#8217;t <\/em>have fewer accidents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw this story in Autoblog. There is a discrimination hearing next month at the European Court of Justice. The final decision is expected on 1 March, and could see the gap closed between the prices male and female drivers pay for their insurance. The 17-22 age bracket is set to suffer the most, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adi-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}